August 17, 1995 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Ben Stein: www.amazon.com The Arkansas Committee was a political registered student organization at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States, from 1989 to 1992. The organization particularly investigated allegations of corruption in government such as the Iran-Contra scandal. The records of the Arkansas Committee primarily consist of photocopies members made of public documents such as court records and depositions, along with newspaper and magazine clippings. Sound cassette interviews with various parties and video cassette tapes of Committee hearings and productions are also included. In 1992, the Committee charged that former Governor Bill Clinton did little to investigate the possibility that the Mena Airport was used as part of a gun and drug smuggling operation in the mid 1980s. The Committee sought documentation that would support claims that the state of Arkansas was involved with money laundering on a massive scale may have found the missing link in their three year search. The Committee initiated an investigation by the United States House of Representatives, headed at that time by James Leach of Iowa. In 1995 James Leach announced to the media that his subcommittee on banking services in the US would carry out an investigation of charges that Mena, Arkansas was used a base of illegal arms and drug smuggling for the benefit of the Contra insurgency in ...